Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
- Subject: Re: Tape support on Mac OS X?
- From: Al Kirkus <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:14:01 -0500
Hi.
I wrote a basic tape driver available here: http://www.kirkus.org/
tapecontrol.html (source and binary).
It reads and writes stdio to/from tape plus a few other utilities.
It is very basic but it works for my needs and it can also give you
an idea of the way OSX handles tape drive support.
I use this app to control several SCSI DLT drives from a G4 Xserve.
Hope that helps, Al
On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:50 AM, Graham J Lee wrote:
On 21 Jun 2005, at 06:40, Peter Seebach wrote:
I have old SCSI tape drives, but they don't show up using my
firewire to SCSI
adapter, and I don't have a SCSI controller that will work at all
in my G5.
Does anyone out there have a tape device which actually shows up
in /dev? If
so, what does it show up as?
Correct me if I'm wrong [please do - I have an LTO Ultrium drive
that needs plugging into an XServe] but there hasn't been any
support for the UNIX SCSI tape driver (i.e. /dev/st) in OS X or
Darwin since 10.0 (OS X Server 1.x had it, IIRC). Unfortunately
this means that without some extension (probably commercial) you
can't just use a SCSI tape :-(
There was an SF project to create a tape driver, http://
sourceforge.net/projects/darwin-tape, created a few years ago but
so far no releases - anyone know the status of it?
--
Graham Lee GPG Key ID: 01D5B9D8
UNIX Systems Manager, Oxford Physics Practical Course
Coordinator, UKUUG Apple SIG (http://lists.ukuug.org/mailman/
listinfo/apple-sig)
Technical bod, Oxford Mac Users' Group (http://www.oxmug.org)
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